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chromHMMviewR
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Awards

SEMM PhD Fellowship (2019-declined)
2016 World Rowing U23 Champion

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Adrià Mitjavila Ventura

Bioinformatician at Institut Josep Carreras | MSc

Biotechnologist living around computers, interested in data analysis to support experimental research as well as in pure (bio)computational experiments and in software/pipeline development. See more about me on my website.

Experience

Bioinformatician

Institut Josep Carreras, Vavouri’s lab

Badalona, Spain

08/2021 - Present

Study of PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs), their biogenesis and variation across species. | Development of a pipeline for processing smallRNA-seq data focussed to analyze piRNAs.

Bioinformatician

Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Pasini’s lab

Milan, Italy

07/2019 - 07/2021

Study of Wnt/\(\beta\)catenin signaling pathway -and others- in the context of colorectal cancer and stem cell development. | Analysis and integration of RNA-seq, ChIP-seq and ATAC-seq data.

Master’s thesis student & Research assistant

Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla, Gene expression

Seville, Spain

09/2017 - 10/2018

Study of Xrn1 and Ccr4 roles in yeast nucleosome architecture and gene transcription. | Analysis of MNase-seq data. | Performance and analysis of MNase-qPCR experiments.

Internship & Bachelor’s thesis student

Microbial. Sistemes i aplicacions analítiques, S.L.

Girona, Spain

09/2016 - 06/2017

Microbiological and molecular analyses for pathogen detection and food forensics. | Study of butyrate effects on the ileal microbiota of colectomized colorectal cancer patients.

Education

MSc in Bioinformatics and Biostatistics

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)

Online

2018 - Present

Overall grade: 8.94
Master’s thesis: Analysis of the variation in piRNA expression across three Mus species. Grade: 9.7/10

MSc in Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology

Universidad de Sevilla (US)

Seville, Spain

2017 - 2018

Overall grade: 9.2/10
Master’s thesis: Influence of Xrn1 in nucleosome positioning across Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome and its effects in transcription. Grade: 9.2/10

BSc in Biotechnology

Universitat de Girona (UdG)

Girona, Spain

2012 - 2017

Overall grade: 8.12/10
Bachelor’s thesis: Butyrate-induced changes in the diversity of intestinal mucosa-associated microbiota in colorectal cancer patients submitted to a lateral ileostomy. Grade: 9.4/10

Publications

Begley et al. Xrn1 influence on gene transcription results from the combination of general effects on elongating RNA pol II and gene-specific chromatin configuration. RNA Biology 2020. doi: 10.1080/15476286.2020.1845504

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